A businessman who finds himself in a difficult financial situation locks himself at home and tries to find a way out of it. Day after day, passing in fruitless searches, gradually change something in his head. Burning in the fire of obsessive ideas, he brings himself to such a state that he has little choice: either self-destruction or a psychiatric clinic. Based on real events. From the author: The story was written after communicating with a real person, whose story shocked me. I simply could not calmly pass by this story, and conveyed it in general terms approximately as the main character told it to me. Having, of course, given a literary form to the confused oral story, smoothing out the most unsightly moments and logically connecting what initially seemed completely incoherent.